Name Position
Professor R.R. Schrock (Nobel Laureate), MIT, USA
Professor J.A. Dumesic Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Professor T. Tatsumi Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Professor J.K. Nørskov TU of Denmark, Denmark
Professor R. Prins ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Plenary lecturer from industry will be decided soon.
 
Name Title
Prof. M. Barteau
(Univ. of Delaware)
TBA
Prof. K. Domen
(Univ. of Tokyo)
New photocatalytic systems for overall water splitting reaction
Dr. J. Holmgren
(UOP)
Refining bio-feedstocks: Innovations for renewable diesel, gasoline and olefins
Prof. G. Hutchings
(Univ. of Wales)
Recent advances in selective catalysis using supported gold nanoparticles
Prof. W. Kaminsky
(Univ. of Hamburg)
Tailored polyolefins and nanocomposite materials by metallocene catalysis
Prof. H. H. Kung
(Northwestern Univ.)
Cooperative effects in novel catalytic structures and environment
Prof. J. Lercher
(TU Munich)
Catalytic activation of light alkanes
Dr. S. H. Oh 
(GM)
Challenges and research needs in future automotive emission control: Industrial perspective
Prof. R. Ryoo
(KAIST)
Hierarchical zeolites for catalytic application
Prof. R. Schloegl
(Fritz-Haber-Institute)
Dynamics of oxidation catalysts
Prof. G. A. Somorjai
(UC-Berkeley)
TBA
 
Name Title
Dr. Jorge Ancheyta

Comparison of Co-current and Counter-current Hydrotreating Reactors by Means of Mathematical Modeling and Simulation
Prof. X. Bao
(DICP)
Catalysis with carbon nanotube: A novel chemistry of the confined nano-systems
Prof. G. Centi
(Univ. of Messina)
Nano-reactor engineering of catalytic surfaces
Prof. R. J. Davis
(VPI)
Selective oxidation catalyzed by supported Au and Au-Pd nanoparticles
Prof. H. Freund
(Fritz-Haber-Inst)
TBA
Prof. K. P. Jong
(Utrecht Univ.)
Carbon nanofibers and carbon nanotubes for catalysts and sorbents
Prof. S. Kasztelan
TBA
Prof. Can Li
(DICP)
TBA
Prof. G. B. Marin
(Ghent Univ.)
TBA
Prof. N. Mizuno
(Univ. of Tokyo)
Fine control of structures and functions of polyoxometalates and the application to selective oxidation catalysis
Prof. T. Maschmeyer

Hierarchically structured composite materials for the photocatalytic splitting of water with visible light
Prof. W. F. Maier
(Univ. Saarlands)
Discovery of new heterogeneous catalysts of unusual selectivity by HT -technologies
Prof. Y. Okamoto
(Shimane Univ.)
Molecular design and characterization of hydrodesulfurization catalysts for cleaner fuels.
Prof. S. T. Oyama
(Virginia Tech)
Nanostructure of a high-permeability, hydrogen-selective inorganic membrane and its use in enhancing catalytic reforming and oxidation reactions
Dr. C. Peden
(PNNL)
The use of ultra high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the surface structure of poorly crystalline -Al2O3 surfaces
Prof. C. Song
(Penn. State Univ.)
New design concepts for sulfur-tolerant noble-metal catalysts for ultra clean fuels
Prof. M. Terano
(JAIST)
TBA
Prof. W. Ueda
(Hokkaido Univ.)
Zeolitic crystalline Mo3VOx oxides active for catalytic selective oxidation
Prof. B. Viswanathan
(IIT-Madras)
TBA
Dr. Y. Wang
(PNNL)
Preparation and characterization of nanodispersed early transition metal oxide catalysts on mesoporous silica
Prof. B. Weckhuysen
(Utrecht Univ.)
Catalyst locomotion: Probing catalytic solids at work with in-situ spectroscopy and microscopy
Prof. C.-S. Wu Photo-selective catalytic reduction of NO in an optical-fiber photoreactor